Universities can teach maturity. They can teach teenagers how to be adults, and that means to function outside a clique or a tribe. — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
The only thing that makes a book YA is that it is about teenagers, and it is written in a very conventional, non-artsy, non-pretentious way. YA is not the place for the oblique or the cryptic. If it is in… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
If you tell your husband or boyfriend for his whole life that he needn't worry about his clothes, that he couldn't possibly understand them,… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Canadian writers don't live in gated mansions; you can just talk to them when you see them lining up at the Second Cup. — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
I was given a thick paperback copy of the 'Guinness Book of Records' when I was 11 years old, and I read it gluttonously,… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
What I would love to see is art that explicitly addresses not personal intimacies but anonymous intimacies: the vast collections of facts about you… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Indeed, the whole point of the man bun, I have surmised, is to assert a high proficiency at yoga. There are no yoga-achievement badges,… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Anything that encourages a boy to open a book, in a world of more violent and therefore more compelling video games, is something I'm… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Verisimilitude is something I am constantly seeking in fiction. I am looking for surface detail that makes something seem real. — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Increasingly, to dismiss any popular artistic style is seen as the worst kind of snobbery. And snobbery, it goes without saying, is unacceptable in… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
What I don't understand is why men have decided that they like wearing hats indoors. It makes no sense to me. — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
I am indeed completely nuts, but that doesn't mean I don't care about how I look. Sometimes, I admit, I will privilege appearance over… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
Everyone likes to hear that their eccentricities and their addictions are simply evidence of their sensitive artistic nature. — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
